Potato Harvest

In Idaho, at least parts of Idaho, there is a school holiday called Potato Harvest. It is a hold-over from the days when the farmers needed the kids to help get the potatoes in the shed. I doubt if many kids help these days, but we are grateful for the holiday because we get to see our grand kids.

Clay and his family arrived Sunday night and will be with us for the week. We have lots of fun activities planned and we really hope the weather holds out so we can enjoy them all.

Monday it was cold and windy so we stayed inside most of the day playing games and eating. Later in the day we visited grandpa Darce in New Harmony, then went to Cedar and visited Donna in the rehab center and Grandpa James at his place. By then the kids were getting restless and hungry so we came home and had some supper and watched a movie.

Tuesday the weather was better, and we rode the horses, the four-wheelers and went fishing. We tended the kids in the evening so Clay and Lori could go to Les Miserables at Tuacahn.

Wednesday was another beautiful day. It was still cold in the morning so we played computer games for a while before going outside. After lunch Chelsea and Jeff, some friends of Clay and Lori, came with their kids. We rode the horses and four-wheelers and just enjoyed visiting. After supper we had a karaoke party of sorts, then the kids went to bed and we watched a major chic-flic, "Shall We Dance".

Thursday we played around the house in the morning while Ellie went to Cedar for a conference with the folks at Kolob regarding Donna's care. In the afternoon the guys went fishing at Lundgren's Pond while Lori took the girls shopping for school clothes in Saint George and Ellie tended the baby. We caught quite a few of the small mouth bass and a couple of bluegill. We brought them home and filleted them for eating at lunch tomorrow. We had a hot dog roast for supper, then watched BYU get slaughtered by TCU. That was really ugly.

Clay, Nathan and I went out at first light and tried to call in a coyote but they didn't cooperate. They would rather just hang around in the middle of the night and yap their heads off.

After breakfast the farrier came to put new shoes on the horses so we watched and helped. After lunch the guys went fishing again at Garth's pond. We appreciate him letting us practice our fly fishing skills in a place where the fish actually cooperate.

Around 3:30 we had a bunch of photographers come to take photos of the "real west". We accommodated them by saddling the horses and acting as models, along with some professionals they brought along. (I think that will make another interesting blog.) We went to a fun ward party in the evening. Besides some great

food, we learned some great Halloween songs.